About Caroline Henne

Caroline Henne has experience as a project manager, editor, and teacher; she recently moved to Vermont from Washington, DC. Caroline lives in South Burlington with her family and loves writing and exploring outside.

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{Disclaimer: We are working with Kat’s Paws to bring you this post.} Vermont is home to a rich tradition of quilting and hand sewing; as a new transplant here, I’m finding that there’s nothing else that makes my home look quite so attractive and uniquely “Vermont” as beautiful quilted and hand sewn items. I recently […]

In order to prepare for a new phase in my life after having a baby, I chose to conduct fieldwork focusing on a species which we might call, “a mystery hiding in plain sight,” or, the toddler mom (mater toddlerus.) While many of us may observe a member of this species roaming our local parks, […]

Now that school has started again, your calendar is probably full of invitations to potlucks, cookouts, and dinner parties. Rather than grabbing a dozen of those fluorescent sprinkle cookies at the grocery store, impress all your friends with one of these tasty homemade chocolate desserts! Straight from my mother’s recipe book, these three easy chocolate desserts […]

It was time to head home after a fun children’s story hour at our library, when my 18-month-old daughter and I were surprised by a loudspeaker announcement that school lockdown procedures were being implemented. Since the library was directly connected to the neighboring school building, all of us inside were included in the school lockdown. […]

“How can I help my kids love art?” My mother asked my first-grade teacher. My mom was not an expert in art herself but had an inkling from parenting books that it would be a good thing to expose me and my sisters to. My teacher, one of the best I ever had, answered my […]

We all wrestle with our “inner critic” from time to time – that little nagging voice that tells you that you’re doing things wrong, that nothing in your life will ever improve, or that your child is stuck in a bad pattern that she’ll never shake. Hopefully, these feelings of annoyance, anxiety or guilt pass […]

Who doesn’t want their kids to love books? Right now, my 18 month old daughter is a champ at reading board books over and over (and over and over…). But, I’m not always sure what the ‘next’ step should be once she’s ready for something more challenging than Goodnight Moon. If I let her pick […]